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NotYango
Profile Joined December 2013
United States719 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-13 19:31:31
December 13 2013 19:30 GMT
#701
Because there are two reasonable ways your games are going to develop as LC. Either you have a team that assists your ganks well, in which your 2nd item doesn't need to be a damage item for you to get Duel kills (letting you get a faster BKB). Or your team is not reliable in helping you get Duel kills and you need to be able to kill things solo in which case Lothar's is the most suitable solo-kill DPS item anyway rather than Armlet (since the Lothar's somewhat replaces Blink).
yango pls
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-13 19:34:00
December 13 2013 19:33 GMT
#702
I just updated them, added you as Contributor (naturally) to the guides.

So I'm a bit confused what the core item builds should be now. Both for lane and jungle.

If I'm getting Shadow blade, then there's no real point in getting Phase, since in the long run, treads is better and I have my movement speed to chase/engage with early MOC and Shadow Blade.
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NotYango
Profile Joined December 2013
United States719 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-13 19:41:50
December 13 2013 19:40 GMT
#703
Jungle should virtually always just be Blink rush unless you're playing with REALLY shitty pubs and don't trust your Blink to get you early kills. In which case, playing LC jungle is awkward regardless because if you don't get the impact of your early Blink to snowball, she's not exactly a fast enough farmer to otherwise take over the game by farming it out. You can go Lothar's but if your team is really losing without you and doesn't assist your ganks, it won't help because you won't be able to solo kill shit if everyone one the enemy team is fed.

Safe lane gives you more options with more early gold. You can choose to go for early fighting items and transition into Blink, Lothar, or straight BKB depending on how the game develops.

AC should be a core item, as it's almost always going to be your 2nd major item. Everything past AC gets hairy and should be situational.

On December 14 2013 04:33 Torte de Lini wrote:
If I'm getting Shadow blade, then there's no real point in getting Phase, since in the long run, treads is better and I have my movement speed to chase/engage with early MOC and Shadow Blade.

No. Especially after the nerf, Shadowblade CD is too long for you to rely on it for in-fight/post-fight mobility. If you use Shadowblade to engage, you won't have the active during the fight. Overwhelming Odds helps, but only lasts 7 seconds and has a really long 18s CD.

Phase is basically necessary if you did not get Blink Dagger, and sometimes still necessary if you did.
yango pls
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-13 19:45:43
December 13 2013 19:45 GMT
#704
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=203428541 -- lane
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=203428546 -- jungle

It feels strange to rush blink as a first item with little to go on as additional items to take out foes. I'll have to try this. Safe-lane one as well
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Sn0_Man
Profile Blog Joined October 2012
Tebellong44238 Posts
December 13 2013 19:51 GMT
#705
The idea behind blink is to "gank" (aka gang-kill). Ideally you serve up the long disable and your buddies help you with the damage part. Blink allows you to properly achieve uneven fights where theres 3 of you and 1 or 2 of them. Without blink you are relying on outside factors to actually get in duel range, so even if you would win the duel it probably never happens.
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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
December 13 2013 19:53 GMT
#706
I don't need to skip boots for it right?
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NotYango
Profile Joined December 2013
United States719 Posts
December 13 2013 20:28 GMT
#707
Don't need to, often should though.

I honestly wouldn't even bother with Overwhelming Odds at 5 on Jungle. The fact that MoC can't double-proc means that you use mana and lose HP far more aggressively in the jungle than you did in DotA 1, so you're unlikely to have the mana to gank comfortably pre-Blink. Really I'd be something like 0-2-3-1 at 6, with 0-4-4-1 at 9. You can start leveling Overwhelming Odds after Blink if you want, but I don't find it terribly compelling--the damage is not really that high unless you hit lots of targets, which basically means for farming or for teamfighting.
yango pls
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
December 13 2013 20:42 GMT
#708
Done.

Thanks a whole lot!
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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
December 13 2013 21:08 GMT
#709
Is BKB core?
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Oukka
Profile Blog Joined September 2012
Finland1683 Posts
December 13 2013 21:21 GMT
#710
On December 14 2013 06:08 Torte de Lini wrote:
Is BKB core?


Cross-quote from SQSA thread:

On December 14 2013 04:14 NotYango wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 13 2013 19:23 Scalepad wrote:
What items should you aim for on LC? Like, later on, after boots and blink. Attack speed?

BKB AC

BKB is absolutely necessary for teamfighting. The secondary use of Duel other than as a ganking skill is as a 4-5s initiating disable that goes through magic immunity. Without BKB, initiating this way is basically a lost Duel every time.

Crit is basically your 6th item if you get one at all. Prior to that survivability is your priority. Damage should not be a huge concern simply because if you're getting successful Duels, you will get so much free damage. Your priority should be staying in fights to do your damage.
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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
December 13 2013 21:40 GMT
#711
I'm playing LC with this jungle build now and I got blink by 12, so bkb came at 19:31
I understand its importance of being bought right after Blink.
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Rayeth
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States883 Posts
December 13 2013 22:10 GMT
#712
Like almost every other time you end up getting a BKB, it depends on the situation. I suspect (personal sample size of 2 games here, so not a lot to go on) that BKB is going to be useful nearly all the time, but I can imagine scenarios where you would opt to not get it. Unlike that, I pretty much can't think of any time where I wouldn't get blink. The initiation from blink->duel is so good. It's basically like being a more durable batrider for a few seconds. Pretty fun hero overall. Maybe not competitive with the way MoC is interacting with attack speed atm, but still great fun to play.
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NotYango
Profile Joined December 2013
United States719 Posts
December 13 2013 22:13 GMT
#713
It is OK to get Shadowblade instead of Blink if your team sucks really bad but those games are really frustrating for LC to try and carry regardless.
yango pls
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
December 13 2013 22:49 GMT
#714
What I find annoying during the first few fights is that we're often not killing my opponent until right after the duel ends. No real dmg output sometimes.
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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-14 10:14:53
December 14 2013 09:37 GMT
#715
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=203428546

Thanks Yango!

Changed Skeleton King's name to Wraith King.
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Firebolt145
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Lalalaland34504 Posts
December 14 2013 10:16 GMT
#716
Given that Overwhelming Odd's movespeed increase is max at lvl 1 I feel like it might be worth taking a single early point in it, even when Jungling.
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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-14 10:22:59
December 14 2013 10:19 GMT
#717
On December 14 2013 19:16 Firebolt145 wrote:
Given that Overwhelming Odd's movespeed increase is max at lvl 1 I feel like it might be worth taking a single early point in it, even when Jungling.


Initially, I had it at level 5

On December 14 2013 05:28 NotYango wrote:
Don't need to, often should though.

I honestly wouldn't even bother with Overwhelming Odds at 5 on Jungle. The fact that MoC can't double-proc means that you use mana and lose HP far more aggressively in the jungle than you did in DotA 1, so you're unlikely to have the mana to gank comfortably pre-Blink. Really I'd be something like 0-2-3-1 at 6, with 0-4-4-1 at 9. You can start leveling Overwhelming Odds after Blink if you want, but I don't find it terribly compelling--the damage is not really that high unless you hit lots of targets, which basically means for farming or for teamfighting.



By the way, I haven't really improved Invoker at all that much. It is the hero I never play and fear playing. I'm going to add you Firebolt to Contributors because you helped make practically the whole thing.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=129334727
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Firebolt145
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Lalalaland34504 Posts
December 14 2013 10:25 GMT
#718
Fair enough I haven't played her yet since Dota 2.

Also did I really give you that build? I would never talk about QW in this day and age. If that's the only Invoker guide you have right now you should definitely make a second one for Exort Invokers since that's the more popular build right now.
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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-14 10:43:47
December 14 2013 10:43 GMT
#719
On December 14 2013 19:25 Firebolt145 wrote:
Fair enough I haven't played her yet since Dota 2.

Also did I really give you that build? I would never talk about QW in this day and age. If that's the only Invoker guide you have right now you should definitely make a second one for Exort Invokers since that's the more popular build right now.


I am available this weekend to do it, but I would have to do some reading to figure out what's the best way to build him: early game, core, situational, extension.

and skill build.

Does the QW one need improving?


All in all, yes; I should do a second invoker guide and I am available to do it.
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NotYango
Profile Joined December 2013
United States719 Posts
December 14 2013 20:06 GMT
#720
It turns out that in one of the mini-patches over the last few days, Valve actually fixed MoC entirely, so you can get away with the 1 rank of Overwhelming Odds if you really want. I'm personally still not a fan and I would do it at 7 if at all. It does virtually nothing without Duel, so even if you get it, you'd only want it after you have Duel.
yango pls
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